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Entertaining a grateful sense of obligation to their Alma Mater for the in- 
tellectual and moral training received within her walls, and desirous of 
perpetuating the friendships established during their course in College, and 
of promoting the true interests, influence and efficiency of Columbia College 
as an institution of sound learning and practical education — the better to 
secure these ends, do agree to unite as an Association under the following 



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Article I. 

This Association shall be known as " The Association of the Alumm of 
Columbia College." 

Article 11. 

Sec. 1. — This Association shall consist of regular, associate and honorary- 
members. 

Sec. 3.— All graduates of Columbia College who have heretofore enrolled 
themselves, or who may hereafter enroll themselves as members of this Asso- 
ciation, shall be regular members thereof 

Sec. 3. — All persons who shall not have graduated, but who shall have 
been, or shall be, members of classes wliich have graduated, or shall have 
graduated, from Columbia College, may be elected by the Standing Committee 
associate members of this Association, but associate members shall not have 
the power of voting, or be eligible to office. 

Sec. 4. — The President of Columbia College, or any member of the Board 
of Trustees, or of the Faculty, or any Ex-President, or ex-member of such 
Board or Faculty, not being a graduate of Columbia College, or any one who 
has received, or may hereafter receive, an honorary degree from the College, 
may be elected an honorary member of this Association, and shall be entitled to 
all the privileges of regular members, except those of voting and holding office. 

Article III. 

Sec. 1. — Every regular and associate member shall pay to the Treasurer 
tlie sum of two dollars annually, or, in lieu thereof, a life-membership fee of 
twenty dollai-s as a commutation for annual dues, and moneys paid in as com- 
mutation fees shall be funded under the direction of the Standing Committee 
and the interest shall be appropriated to the current expenses of the Association. 



4 CONSTITUTION. 

Sec. 2. — Should any regular or associate member, other than a life mem- 
ber, neglect to pay the said annual dues, and allow the same to become more 
than one year in arrear, he shall have no vote upon any subject before the 
Association until he shall have paid the dues in arrear ; and further, the Stand- 
ing Committee shall have power to erase his name from the roll of members) 
and he shall thereupon cease to be a member of this Association until restored 
by a vote of the Standing Committee, or of the Association. 

Article IV. 

Sec. 1. — The officers of this Association shall be a President, Vice-Presi- 
dent, Secretary, and Treasurer, and shall be elected from the regular members 
and, with twelve other regular members, shall constitute the Standing Com- 
mittee of the Association. 

Sec. 2. — Tlie said officers and committee shall be elected at the annual 
meeting of the Association, and shall hold their offices respectively for one 
year, and until their successors shall have been duly chosen. 

Article V. 

Sec. 1. — The President, or in his absence the Vice-President, or in their 
absence a President|)ro tempare, shall preside at the meetings of the Association. 

Sec. 2. — The President shall have power to call extra meetings of the 
Association, and it shall be his duty to call a meeting thereof whenever five 
regular members shall request him to do so. 

Sec. 3. — During the absence, illness, or other inability of the President to 
perform any of his duties, the Vice-President shall act as, and shall have all 
the powers of, the President. 

Article VI. 

The Secretary shall have the custody of the constitution, by-laws and 
records of the Association, and of the Standing Committee ; he shall give due 
notice of all meetings of the Association, and of such committee; he shall 
keep accurate minutes of their proceedings, and shall notify officers and com- 
mittees of their appointment, and of all resolutions or orders apiDertaining to 
heir respective duties. 

Article VII. 

The Treasurer shall collect and take charge of the funds of the Associa- 
tion, and shall make ordinary disbursements as the Standing Committee shall 
direct ; he shall keep a written account of his receipts and payments, and at 
each annual meeting shall report the same in writing to the Association, when 
a committee of three regular members shall be appointed to audit his accounts, 
which committee shall report to the Association, or to the Standing Commit- 
tee, within one year from the date of their appointment ; he shall also report 
to the Standing Committee the condition of the Treasury whenever required 
by said committee to do so. 

Article VIII. 

Sec. 1. — The Standing Committee shall hold its first meeting within one 
month after its election in each year, at such time and place as shall be designated 
by the Secretary of the Association, or, in case of his omission to do so within 
three weeks, by any three membei"8 of the Standing Committee. 



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CONSTITUTION. 5 

Sec. 2. — Until the diflFerent organization of the Standing Committee in 
each year, the Vice-President of the Association shall act as its Chairman ; and 
it shall be governed by the by-laws of the Standing Committee of the previous 
year, until other by-laws be adopted. 

Shc. 3. — It shall be the duty of the Standing Committee to attend the 
examination of the students of Columbia College, and to make all proper 
arrangements for the annual meeting of the Association ; and for these, as well 
as for other purposes, they shall have power to appoint such sub-committees 
out of their own number, or from other regular or associate members of the 
"Association, or from both, as they may deem expedient. 

Sec. 4. — Sub-Committees shall be deemed to be continued until discharged 
by the Standing Committee, although the term of office of the Standing 
Committee which appointed them may have expired, in which case they shall 
report to the successors in office of such Standing Committee. 

Sec. 5. — The Standing Committee shall have power to accept resignations 
of officers of the Association and resignations of their own members, and to 
fill the vacancies caused by such resignations respectively, the appointees in 
such cases to hold office until the next annual meeting of the Association, and 
until their successors shall have been duly chosen ; to call meetings of the 
Association ; to disburse the funds of tlie Association to an amount not 
exceeding in any one j^ear the aggregate amount of the annual dues of the 
members of the Association with the ordinary annual expenses of the Seci-ttary 
and Treasurer deducted therefrom ; and, in general, to do all things which in 
their judgment may be expedient for the promotion of the objects of the 
Association, subject only to such restrictions and limitations as are contained 
in this constitution, or shall be imposed by the Association. 

Sec. 6. — The Standing Committee may elect its own Chairman, and shall 
every year, through its Chairman, present to the annual meeting of the Asso- 
ciation a full report of all its proceedings and also of such other matters, in the 
form of recommendations or otherwise, as the Committee may deem proper. 

Article IX. 

An annual meeting of the Association shall be held on the first Monday of 
October in each year, for the purposes of business and literary and social enter- 
taimnent, under the direction of the Standing Committee. 

Article X. 

The presence of fifteen members shall be necessary to constitute a quorum 
to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day. 

Article XI. 

Amendments to this constitution shall lie over for decision to the next 
meeting of the Association after they shall have been proposed, and -the consent 
of two-thirds of the regular and associate members present shall be necessary 
to their adoption. 

No proposed amendment shall be decided by the Association, except by 
unanimous consent, if more than two years shall have elapsed since the meet- 
ing at which such amendment shall have been proposed. 



For 1872-'3. 



Pfe^idei^t. 
Henry Dbislee, Class of 1S39. 

Vide-^fe^ident. 
Frederic De Petster, Class of 1816. 

^edfetkfy. 
J. Howard Yan Amringe, Class of 1860. 

O^fea^ufef. 
Charles R. Swords, Class of 1829. 

^tk.i|dii|^ doir\inittee. 
Henry James Anderson, Class of 1818. 
William Mitchell, Class of 1820. 

George P. Quaokenbos, Class of 1843. 
Charles A. Silliman, Class of 1850. 

William H. Butterworth, Class ol 1864. 

Joseph Bayley Lawrence, Class of 1864. 
Henry E.. Beekman, Class of 1865. 

A. Floyd Delaeield, Class of 1866. 
James McNamee, Class of 1867. 

W. Bayard Cutting, Class of 1869. 
Seth Low, Class of 1870. 

Stuyvesant Fish, Class of 1871. 



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Clas3. 

1818 — Henry James Andersou (Life.) 

1823 — Horatio Allen 

1824 — Benjamin Aycrigg (Life.) 
1832 — Henry T. Anthony « 
1849 — Cornelius Rea Agnew " 
1849 — William Edmond Armitage " 
1851 — John H. Anthon " 

1863 — James Herman Aldrich " 

1864 — John Magnus Adams " 
1868 — Isaac Adler • " \ 
1868 — John William Schmidt Arnold " 
1820 — William Betts 

1832 — William L. Boyd 

1834 — James William Beekman (Life.) 

1838 — Mancer M. Backus 

1839 — John Ebenezer Burrill, Jr. (Life.) 
1843 — William Edgar Bunker " 
1846 — Beverley Robinson Betts 

1846 — Elias G. Brown (Life.) 

1856 — Charles A. Bacon " 

1856 — Eastburn Benjamin " 

1859 — John Crosby Brown " 

1859 — Edward F. Browning " 

1863 ~ Fanning Cobham Tucker Beck " 

1863 - William Cornell Biuus 

1863 — Thomas Tileston Bryce 

1864 — Gerard Beekman 

1864' — John Neilson Beekman (Life.) 

1864 — Walston Hill Brown 

1864 — Thomas Baird Browning " 

1864 — Charles Stedman Bull 

1864 — John Frederick Butterworth " 

1864 — William Henry Butterworth " 

1865 — Henry Rutgers Beekman " 

1865 — Douglas William Burnham "' 

1866 — Francis G. Brown (Associate.) 
1866 — James Manning Bruce (Life.) 



LIST OP MEMBERS. 

Class. 

1867 — Samuel Appleton Blatchford (Life.) 

1867 — Charles Henry Burtis 

1868 — James Michael Brady 

1869 — Willard Bartlett 
1869 — Evelyn Bartow 
1869 — Robert Lenox Belknap 
1869 — Jacob Bininger 

1871 — Robert Barbour (Life.) 

1871 — Frederic Bronson 

1827 — John P. Crosby 

1827 — William Henry Crosby 

1845 — Edward Cooper 

1850 — Malcolm Campbell 

1850 — Frederic R. Coudert 

1851 — Charles Arms Cook 

1853 — William Irving Clark " (Lite.) 

1862 — Nathaniel Ellsworth Cornwall, Jr. ' " 

1863 — Charles Frederick Clarke " 

1863 — Freeman Clarkson " 
1865 — Thomas Cooper Campbell " 

1865 — John Henrj* Caswell " 

1868 — Benjamin Howell Campbell " 

1869 — Thomas Newby Cuthbert 

1869 — William Bayard Cutting * (Life.) 

1870 — Towson Caldwell 

1871 — Clarence Rapelje Conger (Life.) 
1871 — John Cropper " 
1871 — Robert Fulton Cutting 

1812 — James F. De Peyster 

1818 — Frederic De Peyster (Life.) 

1839 — Henry Drisler 

1841 — Cornelius Roosevelt Duffle " 

1848 — Morgan Dix 

1855 — Charles Da Costa (Life.) 

1864 — Matthew BrinckerhoflP Du Bois " 

1866 — Julien Tappan Davies • 

1866 — Augustus Floyd Delafield 

1867 — George Gosman De Witt, Jr. (Life.) 
1869 — Henry Drisler, Jr. 

1871 — Denning Duer, Jr. 

1841 — James Emott (Life.) 

1863 — Clifford Faitoute Eagle '' 

1864 — Duane Shuler Everson " 
1827 — Hamilton Fish 

1853 — William George Farrington " 

1859 — Cortlandt De Peyster Field " 

1862 — Charles Dudley Fuller " 

1867 — Nicholas Fish " 



LIST OF MEMBERS. 



Class. 



1869 
1869 
1871 
1839 
1841 
1858 
1860 
1861 
1865 
1868 
1823 
1836 
1843 
1848 
1853 
1853 
1860 
1861 
1861 
1863 
1863 
1863 
1863 
1863 
1865 
1869 
1869 
1871 
1871 
1872 
1873 
1873 
1867 
1869 
1837 
1831 
1836 
1859 
1865 
1871 
1838 
1838 
1840 
1846 
1853 
1854 
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Frederic De Peyster Foster 

Hamilton Fish, Jr. 

William Dudley Foulke 

Stuyvesant Fish 

Frederic E. Gibert, (Associate.) 

Oliver Wolcolt Gibbs 

Jacob A. Geisseiihaincr 

Robert Goelet, Jr. 

Langdon Greenwood 

Charles King Gracie 

Elmslie Morven Gillett 

Mancius Smedes Hutton 

John W. Hamersley 

Abram Stevens Hewitt 

Joseph Wesley Harper 

John W. Harper 

Albert Ward Hale 

Edmund Abdy Hurry 

Charles Coolidge Haight 

William Richards Hillyer 

Wm. Augustus Ogden Hegeman 

Burrall Hoffman 

Randall Cook Hall 

Richard Mentor Henry 

Stephen Ferris Holmes 

James Hooker Hamersley 

Edward John Hallock 

William Berrian Hooper 

Jacob Herrick Henry 

Joseph Hooper 

Edward Fermor Hall 

Robert Ray Hamilton 

Schuyler Hamilton, Jr. 

William Halsey Ingersoll 

William Iselin 

Joshua Jones 

Bradish Johnson 

John Jay 

Charles A. Jackson, Jr. 

Frederick Rhinelander Jones 

George Barent Johnson 

John Mason Knox 

Benjamin T. Kissam 

Robert Lenox Kennedy 

Edwin M. Kellogg 

John A. Keruochan 

Edward Kirkland 

Charles Sigourney Knox 



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10 LIST OP MEMBERS. 



Class. 






1885 — 


George Goelet Kip 


(Life.) 


1867 — 


John Alsop King 




1872 — 


Charles Henry Knox 


(Life.) 


1829 — 


Richard Lawrence, (Associate.) 


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1837 — 


William Henry Leggett 


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1840 — 


Levi Arnold Lockwood 


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1846 — 


Jeremiah Loder 


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1840 — 


Joseph Laroque 


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1849 — 


David Porter Lord 


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1850 — 


Adolph Le Moyne, Jr. 


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1859 — 


William Lummis 


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1862 — 


George Anderson Lawrence 


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18G3 — 


Lewis Heary Lighlhipe 


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18(53 — 


Le Grand Lockwood, Jr. 


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1864 — 


Joseph Bayley Lawrence 


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1865 — 


William Gilman Low 


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1867 — 


Daniel Lord, Jr. 


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1870 — 


Seth Low 


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1871 — 


Henry Day Loder 


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1820 — 


William Mitchell 


11 


1822 — 


Adrian H. Muller 


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1825 — 


John McKeon 




1834 — 


Richard E. Mount, Jr. 


(Life.) 


1837 — 


John MacMuUen 


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1840 — 


John Mitchell Mason 


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1843 — 


Livingston Kip Miller 


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1857 — 


My t ton Maury 


11 


ISGO — 


Thomas H. Messenger 




18G0 — 


George Mason Miller 


(Life.) 


1881 — 


James McNamee 




1861 — 


Edward Mitchell 


(Lif..) 


1862 — 


Cornelius Bcrriau Mitchell 


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1863 — 


Dan. Miirvin, Jr. 


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1803 — 


Hluyvesant Fish Morris 




1864 — 


William Franklin Mott 


(Life.) 


1865 — 


Henry Richard McElligott 


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1865 — 


William Neilson McVickar 


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1865 — 


Randolph Brant Marline 


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1865 — 


James Fontaine Manry 


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1866 — 


Augustus Chapman Merriam 


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1868 — 


William Mitchell, Jr. 


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1870 -- 


Robert Stratton Morison 


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Daniel S. Miller 


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1871 — 


James Brander Matthews 


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1871 - 


James Otis Morse 


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1871 — 


Chester Clark Munroe 


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1872 — 


Valentine Mott 


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1860 — 


Robert Dillon Nesmith 


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LIST OF MEMBERS. .11 

Class. 

1861 — Gratz Nathan (Life.) 
1863 — Hiram Hunt Nazro " 

1863 — Thomas Bellamy Newby " 

1866 — Edward Holland Nicoll 

1868 — John McLean Nash 

1848 — Peter Wilson Ostrander (Life.) 

1862 — Charles Walton Ogden " 

1867 — Cadwalader Evans Ogden 

1869 — David B. Ogden (Life.) 

1870 — Isidor Pierce Oberndorfer 

1846 — Edward M. Peck (Life.) 
1860 — Eugene Hall Pomeroy " 

1864 — Henry Hills Parker 

1865 — James Lyman Price " 

1865 — Frederick Prime, Jr. 

1866 — Willard Parker, Jr. 

1867 — Henry Evelyn Pierrepont, Jr. " 

1868 — Duane Livingston Peabody " 

1869 — Charles Augustus Peabody " 

1869 — William Macueven Purdy " 

1870 — George Livingston Peabody " 

1843 — George Payn Quackenbos " % 

1868 — John Duncan Quackenbos " 

1833 — William Channing Russell 

1835 - John H. Riker 

1836 — James Renwick " 

1839 — Edward Sabine Renwick " 

1847 — James Francis Ruggles 

1848 — Columbus B. Rogers (Life.) 
1865 — Arthur Bernard Ross " 

1870 — David Alvah Rowe 

1871 — John Watts Russell " 

1872 — John Krom Rees 

1829 — Charles R. Swords (Life.) 

1834 — Robert S. Swords 

1838 — George Templeton Strong (Life.) 

1840 — William Colford Schermerhorn " 
1848 — Otis Dwight Swan " 
1850 — Charles Augustus Silliman " 
1856 — Alexander M. Stanton " 
1860 — James S. Satterthwaite " 

1863 — Philip Justice Sands 

1863 — Henry Yates Satterlee (Life.) 

1863 — Rutherford Stuyvesant " 

1864 — Frederick William Stephens " 

1865 — Lenox Smith 

1865 — John Edwin Swezey " 

1866 — George Putnam Smith " 



IS LtST OP MEMBERS. 

Class. 

1867 — Julius Sachs , 

1809 — John Adams Smedberg 

1869 — David Stewart, Jr. (Life,) 

1869 — Henry Cady Sturges 

1871 — Henry Mason Smyth 

1871 — Oscar Solomon Strauss 

1831 — Francis Tomes, Jr. (Life.) 

1852 — Henry A. Tailer 

1853 — Eugene Thorn " 
1856 — David G. Thompson " 
1850 — John W. Timpson 

180i — George Lansing Taylor " 

1861 — Joseph M. Turner " 

1863 — Charles Rockland Tyng 

1866 — Augustus Talbot (Life.) 

1866 — Richmond Talbot 

1872 — Edmund Grindle Rawson Trimble 

1829 — John D. Van Baren (Life.) 

1860 — John Howard Van Amringe " 
1865 — Abraham Van Santvoord " 
1865 — Isaac Van Winkle " 

1867 — Aaron Ernest Vanderpoel " 
1871 — Joseph Fenelon Vermilye 

1830 — George William Wright 

1836 — George Gilfert Waters (Life.) 

1854 — Stewart L. Woodford 

1861 — Luis Puertas Walton 

1861 — Samuel Baldwin Ward " 

1861 — Edward Walter West " 

1861 — Albert Beach Whitney " 

1863 — Sylvester L. H. Ward " 

1864 — Isidor Walz " 

1864 — John Visscher Wheeler " 

1865 — William Bogart Walker 

1867 — Rudolph August Witthaus, Jr. " 

1867 — James Henry Work " 

1868 — Lucius Kellogg Wilmerding 

1869 — Edward Francis Weeks (Life.) 

1869 — Thenford Woodhull 

1870 — Dennistoun Wood (Life ) 

1871 — Robert Waller, Jr. 

1871 — Augustus "Ward Whiton (Life.) 

1872 — Henry Edgar Woodward 

1862 — Leroy Milton Yale 



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